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METHOD OF FASTENING STIFFENING STRIPS T0 GARMENTS. No. 366,936. PatentedJuly 19, 1887.

WITNESSES: INVENTOR:

BY if ATTORNEYS.

N. PETERS, Photo-Lilhognphun washm wm D (L UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE,

LYMAN H. DAY, OF NEYV YORK, N. Y.,ASSIGNOR TO THE BRADLEY, VOOR- HEES &DAY MANUFACTURING COMPANY, (LIMITED,) OF SAME PLACE.

METHOD OF FASTENING STIFFENING-STRIPS TO GARMENTS.

SPECIFICATION forming part 01' Letters Patent No. 366,936, dated July19, 1887.

Application filed February 7, 1387. Serial No. 226,779. (No model.)

To all whom, it may concern: which are integral with the main materialof 50 Be it known that I, LYMAN H. DAY, of the the garment, are made toform pockets for inoit-y, county, and State of New York, have closingand holding the stiffening-strips in invented a new and useful ImprovedMethod place, substantially as hereinafter described,

5 of Fastening stiffening-Strips to Garments, of and shown in thedrawings.

which the following is a full, clear, and exact Reference is to be hadto the accompanying 55 description. drawings, forming part of thisspecification, in

This invention, although applicable to garwhich similar letters ofreference indicate corments of different kinds, is more particularlyresponding parts in both the figures.

designed to be used in connection with knitted Figure 1 represents aview of a female ligelastic garments-snch as those termed jerure, inpart, fitted with a garment known as 60 seysworn by women and children.In such a jersey, which is represented as partly garments a lining isusually dispensed with broken away for the purpose of illustrating a asbeing objectionable for several reasons. stiffener or stiffening-stripandthe mode of ap- 1 Thus a lining gives increased thickness to theplying thesame to one of the seams of the gargarment, does not stretchor yield with the ment. Fig. 2 is a transverse sectional View, 65garment, and in stitching it to its place unupon a larger scale, of theseam of the garment sightly rows of stitching appear upon the outwiththe stiffener applied to and inclosed byit. side of the garment. Theseobjections and A is the garment, made without a lining the additionalexpense of lining more than and composed ofa series of sections orpieces eounterbalancethe main advantage which is united by scams 1).Each or any or all of 7c derived from such lining-namely, ofpreventtheseseams may have the inside stiffeners, ing the garmentfrom riding up onthe body of which restrain the garment from riding up the person andgetting out of form and place. and serve to keep it in form and place onthe My invention accordingly relates to garbody of the wearer applied toit or them; but

ments, especially garments made without a it will suflice here todescribe the stiffener as 7 lining, composed of separate piecesofniaterial applied to only one of the seams.

united by one or more seams, the free turned- 13 is the stiffener orstiffeningstrip, made 01 in marginal portions of which are stitchedwhalebone or any other suitable material, artogether on the inside ofthe garment, and in ranged to run throughout the length of the whichsaid seams have combined with or apseam or any part thereof. 80 plied tothem stiffening-strips arranged to The turned-in marginal flap-likeportions (2 run in direction of the length of the seams. d of the seamare made of an increased width The invention embraces a novel method ofor depth to receive the stiffener B lengthwise thus applyingstiffening-strips to the seams between them and to provide for securingof the garment-,which consists in uniting each said stiffener withinthem by uniting the S5 stiffening-strip to its respective garmentseamturned-in marginal portions (1 d of the seam by inclosing the stripWithin or between the along the opposite or both longitudinalmarturned-in marginal portions of the seam and gins of the stiffener orstiffening-strip, as by 0 uniting said turned-iu portions to each otherinner and outer rows of inside stitching 0/,

along the opposite or both longitudinal marthe one, 0, of which may bethe usual stiteho gins of the stiffening-strip. 3y this method ing forclosing the seam. After the stiffener the garment may not only be keptdown and has thus been inelosed and secured within the in place on thebody without having resort to turned-in marginal portions (1 d of theseam a lining for the purpose, and without exposas a pocket,-saidstiffener, together with the ing on the exterior anymore scams or linesof portions (1 d of the seam, should be subse- 5 stitching than arenecessary in the construcquently laid or pressed down flat upon theintion of the garment without a lining, but the side of the garment.turned-in marginal portions of the seams, Having thusdescribed-myinvention,whatI claiin as new, and desire to secure byLetters said turned-in portions to each other along Patent, is theopposite or both longitudinal margins of IO The method herein describedof fastening the stiffening-strip, substantially as specified.stiffening-strips to the seamed portions of garments, which consists inuniting each stifl'en- LYMAN ing-stri p to its respectivegarment-seam byin- VVitnes'ses: closing the strip within or between the turned- 0.SEDGWIOK,-

in marginal portions of the seamand uniting E. M; CLARK.

